cut capers

Idioms  

1. Also, cut a caper. Frolic or romp, as in The children cut capers in the pile of raked leaves. The noun caper comes from the Latin for “goat,” and the allusion is to act in the manner of a young goat clumsily frolicking about. The expression was first recorded in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (1:3): “Faith, I can cut a caper.”

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cut capers

On this broad platform the infant publication immediately began to cut capers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some bartenders in Yokohama and Kobe dress up on Christmas night like Santa Claus, serve drinks, cut capers.

From Time Magazine Archive

“That this might be the swift boat Clarence has had built, and which he said was going to cut capers all around our fleet,” replied the other, promptly.

From Motor Boat Boys on the St. Lawrence by Louis Arundel

They cut capers, take leaps of the easiest kind, climb up the trunk of a tree which a child three years old might climb.

From La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages by Jules Michelet

But the Tsarevich had a jester who was always with him, and used always to jest and cut capers whenever this child of the Tsar was sad.

From Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales by R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet) Bain

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